Clothes hanger



Aug. 25, 1936. H. DE WAIDE CLOTHES HANGER Filed Dec. 24, 1934 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR. Ha/ De M d/c/e ATTORNEY.

Aug. 25, 1936. DE WA|DE 2,052,085

CLOTHES HANGE R Filed Dec. 24, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I N VEN TOR. %2- bz/zfml/d A TTORNEYS.

Watented Aug. 25, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE CLOTHES HANGER mu De Waide, Portland, Oreg. Application December 24, 1934, Serial No. 759,076

4 Claims. (Cl. 223-48) One object of my invention is to provide an inexpensive but serviceable clothes hanger, one that is very light in weight and which can be easily packed for shipment in quantities.

To accomplish the latter object I make my clothes hanger of material in tubular form jointed in places so that if the hanger is shipped knocked-down,- it can be easily set up, after it has been unpacked, into a triangular form, and suspended from the vertex of the triangle.

The tubular construction of my clothes hanger incidentally provides relatively broad, rounded surfaces supporting the garment; which possess advantages over the ordinary wire garment hanger or wooden hangers of thin cross-section, since it avoids forming any creasing in the shoulders of the garment, as tends to occur where -.the garment is constantly hung over a relatively narrow ridge. The cross-bar at the base of my hanger provides. a similar rounded surface preventing creasing of'any garment hung over the cross-bar.

The above objects and inc'dental advantages it attain by making my clothes hangerfrom a tube of fabricated material, fur. example of paper; by forming .joints at certain places in .the tube, so that it can be readily straightened out for shipment, and easily arranged to form a structure having two equal rounding sloping sides, the upper surfaces of said sloping sides at their ends being flared endwise and laterally so as to provide broad supporting shoulders affording resistance to the slipping off of the garmerit from such shoulders,-with particular reference to womens garments having ,narrow shoulder straps-and by providing means for fastening the two ends of the tube together at any convenient place, thereby holding the structure rigidly in'shape. I consider that it adds to the convenient use of my hanger to provide it with a suspending hook, preferably removable, by which my clothes hanger may be hung up.

Further details of construction and mode of use of my clotheshanger are hereinafter stated with reference to the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

" Fig. 1 shows one form of my clothes hanger completely set up and ready for use; in broken lines I have also illustrated how my clothes hanger is put together;

Fig. 2 shows a paper tube out of which my clothes hanger, illustrated in Fig. 1,. has been made, the saidtube being jointed at certain places for folding, and providedv with means for having its ends fastened together;

' two end portions b and dare of equal length Fig. 3 illustrates, on a larger scale, that the end sections of the sloping sides of the upper section of my clothes hanger may be cut at the joints so that said sides will be spread out and overlap the ends of the lower section, or cross- 5 bar, when my clothes hanger is set up, thus producing broader supporting surfaces at said ends tending to keep the garment more firmly in place;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view, partly in section, also on a larger scale, of the upper ends of the 1 sloping sides of my hanger of the form shown by Fig. 1, after having been set up, illustrating one, method of fastening the said ends together;

Fig. 5 shows a modification of my clothes hanger from its construction shown by Fig. 1, 15 in this that the tubular body may be divided in the lower section or cross-bar, and its ends there fastened together, instead of at the top;

Fig. 6 shows a tube similar to that of Fig. 2, but in this case made without any cut-out por- 20 tions at the joints, being merely pressed flat at the places where the joints are provided;

Fig. 7 shows a clothes hanger as set up when made from the type -of tubular body illus rated in Fig. 6; v

Figs. 8 and 9 show further modifications of my clothes hanger in that the hanger, instead of being made from a single piece of the tubing, comprises two separate pieces of tubing;

Fig. 10 is a view, on a larger scale, of one end 30- of the clothes hanger of Fig. 8;

- broadened shoulders of my hanger in restraining the slipping of the garment on it.

Referring first to 'Fig. 2, a, indicates a tube made of heavy rolled paper, or other suitable material, the tube being divided into three sections, 12, c and d connected by integral joints so as to be adapted to be set up in triangular form. The sections b and d have V-shaped portions e cut out at said joints, as shown by Fig. 3. The and are made shorter than the-middle section 0. The ends of the tube a are formed to constitute a socket f and a tongue g, as shown by Fig. 4, thru 55 which holes i are punched. -When the tubular body is set up, the top of the ends of the section c will spread the cut-cut portions e of the sections {b and d and be pressed into them, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The clothes hanger is set up by bringing together the two sections b and d, then in serting the tongue gof section b into the socket f of section (1, and finally passing a wire hook 1 thru the registering holes i of said tongue and socket, as shown in Fig. 4. The wire hook 7' is preferably provided with a washer is of metal or. other suitable material, and the 'said hook a has its bottom end m spread to keep the hook from pulling thru said washer is and said socket and tongue f and g.

The clothes hanger as illustrated'in Fig. 1 presents several advantageous features. First of all, the paper tube a from which it has been made can be packed flat, requiring very little space and representing very little weight. hanger is quickly and easily set up by folding the tube, as already explained, by inserting one end in the other and by passing the wire hook thru the ends. The resulting hanger has broad, rounded shoulders or surfaces for supporting the garment-in this respect being preferable to the common wire hanger, the narrow supporting surfaces of which tend to strain and make creases or marks at the extremities of the shoulder portions of the gament--. There is no danger of injuring the garment thru rust as in case of wire hangers, or of catching the material of the garment on rough or splintery surfaces, which may occur on cheaply made wooden hangers; and making the tube of paper or similar material insures a clothes hanger providing clothes supporting surfaces suitable for a garment of even the most delicate "fabric.

The cutting out of the V-shaped portions e produces a broadening of the outer surfaces of the joints n, n at the base of the sections b, d and prevents any sharp corners which might have a tendency to make marks on the garment, or catch in the fabric of the garment.

In the construction of my hanger shown by Fig. 5, the ends of the tubular body, instead of being fastened together at the vertex of the triangle as in Fig. 1, are joined together at the base of the triangle by suitable means, for example by having a short bar 0 of wood or tightly rolled paper or other material inserted in each end. In this modified construction a portion of the tube at the center is flattened out as at p in Fig. 5, a .hole is punched thru the tube, and the hook j inserted therein. In all other respects the clothes hanger illustrated in Fig. 5 is the same as that illustrated in Fig. 1. I

For simpler construction my clothes hanger may be made without having portions of the tube cut out as shown in Fig. 2. In Fig. 6 the tubular body q, shaped similarly to tubular body a of Fig. 2, is pressed together at the points s and s'- to form joints at these places, and the ends of the tube q are made into a socket t and a tongue u, respectively, similar to those shown in Fig. 2. The lengths of the sections 11 and w of the tube q correspond to sections 11 and d of tube a, Fig. 1: Holes are punched thru the socket t and tongue u, and a hook :r is inserted therein similar to the hooks 7' and i already described. My clothes hanger made with this modified construction as set up is shown by Fig. '7.

This latter optional construction does away The clothes tube, but I prefer the type of my'clothes hanger including said cuts e and shown by Figs. 1, 2 and 3. In the modified construction illustrated in Fig. 8, a section of tube 2, forming the upper section of the clothes hanger, is bent into the curved 5 form as shown, and the ends of the tube are split and spread as at 3 and 4 (Figs. 10 and 11). A separate piece of tube comprising the crossbar 5 has its ends 6 and 1 flattened and attached to the inside of the split spread ends of the 10 curved tube 2 by staples 8 or other suitable means. The advantage of this construction is that the splitting and spreading of the ends 3 and 4 make it possible to increase the width of the extremities of the garment supporting surfaces consider- 15 ably thereby affording broader shoulder supporting surfaces for the garment, and also further reducing any tendency of the garment to slip or slide on the clothes hanger towards either end.

In Fig. 9, in which the clothes hanger is also 20 made up of two separate pieces of tubing. the ends I! and I3 of the upper section I: are flattened and bent around the flattened ends I4 and I5 of the cross-bar II, and fastened in place by clamps or staples [6, or other suitable fastening. 25

A hook I'l, similar to those in Figs. 1, 5 and 7, is shown inserted thru the center of the upper section III, as a means for suspending the clothes hanger, altho its employment is optional, and any other means, such as string and loop, might be substituted.

The purposeoi' widening the shoulders of the clothes hanger towards the ends,v which purpose is carried out more or less in each of the hangers as shown in the accompany drawings, is to pre- 5 vent the sliding of the garment when supported by the hanger, that is, specifically to prevent the garment from slipping off one side or the other. This feature is illustrated by Fig. 13 in which the garment I8 is a womans garment having shoulder 40 straps is, which is one of the most troublesome types of garments to support on a hanger. The weight of the garment tends to restrain each shoulder strap from spreading out wider, and the broadening of the garment supporting surface 11. of the hanger at the ends restrains shoulder straps from sliding off the ends of the hanger. The'hanger in Fig. 13 is the same as that illustrated in Fig. 1.

I claim: 5

1. A garment hanger consisting of a rigid, tubular body varrangeable in triangular form, consisting of an upper section having oblique sloping sides, and a bottom section constituting a cross-bar connecting the lower ends of said 55 slopingsides and forming the base of the triangular form, the garment supporting surfaces at the ends of the sloping sides being widened out to form broad shoulders, the ends of said sloping sides split and arranged to overlap the 00 sides of the ends of said cross-bar, thereby appreciably widening the shoulders of the hanger towards its ends.

2. Agarment hanger consisting of a rigid fabricated, tubular jointed body comprising a middle 5 section and end sections adapted to be arranged into triangular form, in which formation the oblique sections and the bar-like lower section constitute transversely rounded garment supporting surfaces, the free ends of said oblique 70 sections provided with socket and tongue, respectively, for connecting the same, and said socket and tongueprovided with registering holes for receiving a. suspending hook, a suspending hookadapted to have its shank removably inaosaoas serted thru the holes of said socket and tongue, thus locking the ends of the oblique sections together.

3. A garment'hangerconsisting of a rigid, fabricated, tubular jointed body comprising a middle section and endsections adapted to be arranged into triagular'iorm, in which formation the oblique sections and the bar-like lower section constitute transversely rounded garment supporting surfaces, means for connecting the free ends of the end sections of the body, means for suspending the garment hanger the oblique sections having cuts in their under sides at the Joints, whereby upon setting up the garment hanger the adjacent ends of said bar-like lower section enter in and spread'the sides of said oblique sections at said joints, thus increasing the width at the shoulders of saidgarment'sunporting surfaces.

4. A garment hanger consisting of a fabricated tubular body provided with joints permitting said body to be folded into the shape of an isosceles triangle, the two. ends of said tubular bodv provided with socket and tongue, respectively, whereby said ends may be fastened together, thus holding said body in said triagular shape, hcfles thru said body at a point corresponding to the vertex of said triangle and a suspending hook adapted to have its shank removably inserted thru said holes.

HAL DE WADE. 

